PlanetUnreal (thanks
Gamer's Hell) points the way to the
cached.net
forums in which Angel Munoz offers the reasoning for not selecting Unreal
Tournament 2004 as the game of choice for the CPL world tour, revealing that
Epic is at work on a new installment in the multiplayer shooter series (as
opposed to, say, another Jazz Jackrabbit game). Here's the deal:

People
wondering why we did not pick UT 2004. First realize that Epic is a huge
supporter of CPL. The CEO Mark Rein is a friend of mine and Cliffy B is on our
advisory board.
A wide range of aspects were taken into consideration, including
publisher/developer support for the entire tour. Unfortunately, Epic is
transitioning to a new publisher and it was not expected that their current
publisher would help us in marketing the game/tour through the end 2005.
Additionally, there is a new UT in the works, but it was not going to be
available in the time frame we needed.

Mark and I are still in conversations about the 2006 World Tour.

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